British actress Jodie Comer, 31, is a rising star. After breaking out as a sociopathic Russian assassin in “Killing Eve” (BBC) and co-starring with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel” (Twentieth Century/Disney), she took home a Best Actress Tony for her bravura one-woman play “Prima Facie.” So it’s no surprise that casting director Francine Maisler suggested her to writer-director Jeff Nichols.
They were looking for faces that might measure up to the Danny Lyons photography book on ’60s Chicago bikers that inspired “The Bikeriders.” They had cast Tom Hardy and Austin Butler for the motorcycle picture. The question was, could Jodie Comer nail a local Chicago accent and stand up to these powerful actors?
Apparently, she can do anything. When she first took on “Prima Facie” on the West End, she had no classical training and had appeared as a teenager in one theater production.
They were looking for faces that might measure up to the Danny Lyons photography book on ’60s Chicago bikers that inspired “The Bikeriders.” They had cast Tom Hardy and Austin Butler for the motorcycle picture. The question was, could Jodie Comer nail a local Chicago accent and stand up to these powerful actors?
Apparently, she can do anything. When she first took on “Prima Facie” on the West End, she had no classical training and had appeared as a teenager in one theater production.
- 6/21/2024
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
They were the original One-Percenters — not the richest of the richest, the elite within the elite, but “the one percent who don’t fit and don’t care… We’ve punched our way out of a hundred rumbles, stayed alive with our boots and our fists.” That first-hand quotes opens Hunter S. Thompson’s Hell’s Angels, the definitive account of the motorcycle gang that was both the emblem of pure, uncut postwar freedom and a nightmare for “respectable” society. They’re coming to your town, they’re gonna party it down,...
- 6/21/2024
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
While it was revving up for award season late last year, Midnight Special writer/director Jeff Nichols' new offering The Bikeriders was parked by Disney's 20th Century Studios in the midst of the actors' strike. Universal and Focus Features offered the film a spot on the back of its seat, and what better time to relaunch the promotional campaign for a film starring Austin Butler than ahead of his much-buzzed-about role as Feyd-Rautha in Dune: Part Two? Check out the new trailer below:
With Nichols drawing inspiration from a book of photographs by Danny Lyons, The Bikeriders is also anchored by Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer in the story of the brooding Benny (Butler), who joins a rough-and-ready motorcycle gang called The Vandals.
Led by Hardy's scruffy, hard-driving Johnny, we'll see how the gang rose to prominence, dishing out vengeance and rough justice to those who get in their way,...
With Nichols drawing inspiration from a book of photographs by Danny Lyons, The Bikeriders is also anchored by Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer in the story of the brooding Benny (Butler), who joins a rough-and-ready motorcycle gang called The Vandals.
Led by Hardy's scruffy, hard-driving Johnny, we'll see how the gang rose to prominence, dishing out vengeance and rough justice to those who get in their way,...
- 2/29/2024
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Director Jeff Nichols wanted three magnetic faces to anchor his motorcycle movie, “The Bikeriders,” which just launched at the Telluride Film Festival. He and his casting director Francine Maisler landed a stellar multinational cast for this three-hander led by Tom Hardy, Austin Butler, and Jodie Comer.
The Nichols/Maisler collaboration began with “The Tree of Life” producer Sarah Green. “There’s this young guy who could be the next Terry Malick,” Green told Maisler, who checked out “Take Shelter” and met with Nichols back in 2010. “He was very quiet and humble,” Maisler said at a Telluride interview with Nichols.
Maisler went on to cast “Mud” and every Nichols film since, including “Midnight Special,” which featured an early role for Adam Driver, and “Loving,” which landed Irish actress Ruth Negga an Oscar nomination. “You just put an actor in his hands and they can fly,” said Maisler. “You have a script.
The Nichols/Maisler collaboration began with “The Tree of Life” producer Sarah Green. “There’s this young guy who could be the next Terry Malick,” Green told Maisler, who checked out “Take Shelter” and met with Nichols back in 2010. “He was very quiet and humble,” Maisler said at a Telluride interview with Nichols.
Maisler went on to cast “Mud” and every Nichols film since, including “Midnight Special,” which featured an early role for Adam Driver, and “Loving,” which landed Irish actress Ruth Negga an Oscar nomination. “You just put an actor in his hands and they can fly,” said Maisler. “You have a script.
- 9/4/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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